Governor Newsom and Secretary Crowfoot, are you going to preserve Tesla Park to advance your 30×30 goal & fight climate change or destroy Tesla’s biodiversity while increasing GHG emissions with more motorized recreation?
Valley Fever (Coccidioidomycosis) is endemic in the Corral Hollow area where Tesla’s located. UCB Professor, John Taylor’s 2016 warning of increased health risks of this extremely serious fungal disease from dust-generating OHV recreation was dismissed by State Parks.
Access for all does not mean access for all uses in all places. Tesla Park is not the place for damaging OHV motorized recreation. Tesla Park should be a nature and cultural preserve open to all residents.
Governor Newsom, Secretary Crowfoot, UN IPCC report documents severe climate crisis. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/#SPM Don’t expand OHV motorized recreation into Tesla Park. Don’t increase climate change impacts and destroy nature.
The State OHV program is not primarily user funded and OHV users didn’t pay for Tesla Park. That is the OHV ‘Big Lie.’ The main funding for the OHV program is from State gas tax transfers.
Tule Elk and Golden Eagles range and forage on Tesla Park, but NOT on Carnegie SVRA. Governor Newsom, Secretary Crowfoot, don’t destroy their habitat by opening Tesla to damaging OHV recreation.